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OK, here’s one for an EE guru:

I want to pull the 8 most recent items, randomly, from a weblog/channel. I can do either—the 8 most recent—or the other (random), but when I try both, it just pulls any 8 randomly from the entire pool of entries. I just want the 8 most recent, rearranged every time the page is loaded. Does that make sense? What would the {exp:weblog:entries} tag look like?

Thanks in advance for any guidance.

I am afraid there is no good built-in way to do just that: you can the last 8, you can get any random set of 8, but not the last 8 in random order. A custom SQL query or some PHP would be the way to go here.

Thanks Ingmar. I wanted to avoid that so I found another solution that accomplishes the same thing.

Very glad to hear that. Please don’t hesitate to post again as needed.